invisible
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Adjective (2)
- impossible or nearly impossible to see; imperceptible by the eye“the invisible man”“invisible rays”“an invisible hinge”“invisible mending”Synonyms: unseeableOpposite seeableSimilar concealed, infrared, ultraviolet, undetectable, occult, lightless, unseen, camouflaged +1 moreSee also covert, imperceptible
- not prominent or readily noticeable“he pushed the string through an inconspicuous hole”“the invisible man”Synonyms: inconspicuousSimilar obscure, unnoticeableRelates to conspicuousness
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Translations
Adjective unable to be seen
- Spanish
- invisible
- French
- invisible
- German
- unsichtbar
- Italian
- invisibile
- Portuguese
- invisível
- Turkish
- görünmez
- Russian
- неви́димый nevídimyj
- Arabic
- خَفِيّ ḵafiyy
- Chinese
- 无形 wúxíng
- Dutch
- onzichtbaar
21 more languages
- Polish
- niewidzialny
- Swedish
- osynlig
- Greek
- αόρατος aóratos
- Vietnamese
- tàng hình
- Hungarian
- láthatatlan
- Portuguese (PT)
- invisível
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 無形 wúxíng
- Breton
- diwel
- Catalan
- invisible
- Czech
- neviditelný
- Danish
- usynlig
- Esperanto
- nevidebla
- Estonian
- nähtamatu
- Finnish
- näkymätön
- Georgian
- უჩინარი učinari
- Icelandic
- ósýnilegur
- Latvian
- neredzams
- Norwegian
- usynlig
- Romanian
- invizibil
- Serbo-Croatian
- nevidljiv
- Yiddish
- אומזעיִק umzeik
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. invisible, L. invisibilis. See In- not, and Visible.
1. Incapable of being seen; not perceptible by vision; not visible. Specifically: (a) Not visible due to an inherent property, such as lack of color; as, the invisible air; invisible ink; (b) hidden from view; out of sight; (c) Not perceptible due to lack of light; (d) Too small or too distant to be perceived; as, people on the ground invisible at cruising altitude.
To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works.— John Milton
2. Hidden from the public; as, invisible transactions.
3. imperceptible to the mind; as, differences invisible to most observers.
Invisible bird Zoology, a small, shy singing bird (Myadestes sibilons), of St. Vincent Islands. — Invisible green, a very dark shade of green, approaching to black, and liable to be mistaken for it.
1. An invisible person or thing; specifically, God, the Supreme Being.
2. A Rosicrucian; — so called because avoiding declaration of his craft. obsolete
3. Eccl. Hist. One of those (as in the 16th century) who denied the visibility of the church. Orby Shipley
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: +PJC, GCIDE editors